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Your post is good. Your sentiment is solid. But if he's not a football player then he isn't going to be a student, and if he's not a student then no one is going to pay to put him in a treatment center. We're back to square one, in other words. You either give him a chance to be a college football player or you send him back home an unemployable felon.

My main point was that keeping him at a university should not be an option. If he goes back to the street an unemployable felon, so be it. He made that choice. It's not the responsibility of academia to protect criminals from themselves.

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Posted by derSturm37

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Posted on 3/30/15 at 8:28 am to Crowknowsbest

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My main point was that keeping him at a university should not be an option. If he goes back to the street an unemployable felon, so be it. He made that choice. It's not the responsibility of academia to protect criminals from themselves

I agree that it's not the responsiblity of academia to protect him (or anyone else) from himself. I will point out two things:

1) To my knowledge having a pending case (felony included) won't keep you or me or anyone else from enrolling in, and being accepted to, a university. Not a public university. Duke or Princeton or MIT maybe.

2) It's not the university's, the coach's, nor anyone else's, responsibility to warn a woman not to date a guy. I'm betting that the woman he assaulted knew about his past.

I don't have the data at hand (and I'm not going to waste my morning retrieving them), but I'm thinkng that most of these "second chance" college football players do alright. This one didn't. And Domestic Violence is one of the media's darling issues of the day.

This post was edited on 3/30/15 at 8:35 am

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